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Tithing-Men
Tithing-Men a man out of every ten families.
In the time of the English Saxons every hundred in England was divided into ten districts or tithings; every tithing was made up of ten friburgs, and each friburg of ten families;
and within every such tithing there were tithing-men to examin and determine all lesser causes between villages and neighbours,
but they were to refer all greater matters to superior courts.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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